TROPICS

The Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats (TROPICS) mission is a NASA constellation of six small satellites, 3U CubeSats, that will measure temperature and moisture profiles and precipitation in tropical systems with unprecedented temporal frequency.

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Parts of the tropics may warm more than expected as CO2 rises, study finds - EurekAlert!

Fossilized vomit reveals first filter-feeding pterosaur in the tropics - EurekAlert!

Large parts of the tropics overlooked in environmental research - EurekAlert!

Scientists Think a Volcanic Eruption May Have Kicked Off the ‘Black Death’: A volcanic explosion, somewhere in the tropics, may have increased European trade with central Asia—which brought fleas carrying the bubonic plague

Scientists detect new climate pattern in the tropics - EurekAlert!

Invasive plants are rapidly changing the tropics - EurekAlert!

Warming climate drives dengue surge across Asia and the Americas, a mosquito-borne disease once confined largely to the tropics. Cases of dengue could rise as much as 76% across a large swath of Asia and the Americas by 2050.

Climate change will likely promote the spread of dengue fever, long recognized as a disease of the tropics and sub-tropics, through Western Europe as the Asian tiger mosquito's habitat expands.

Trees in the tropics cool more, burn less - EurekAlert!

Tiny engineers: how termites and ants built the fertile soils of the tropics - EurekAlert!

Rainfall triggers extreme humid heat in tropics and subtropics - EurekAlert!

Rainfall triggers extreme humid heat in tropics and subtropics

Declining insect biodiversity in the tropics

El Niño linked to accelerated ice loss in tropics

Mangrove Trees Are on the Move, Taking the Tropics with Them

In 1872, a Solar Storm Hit the Earth Generating Auroras from the Tropics to the Poles

One of the largest magnetic storms in history quantified: Aurorae covered much of the night sky from the Tropics to the Polar Regions

Photosynthesis May Be Failing in The Tropics as Temperatures Soar

This Week @NASA: Sending a Swarm of Satellites Into Orbit, Rogue Planets, TROPICS First Light

Indigenous input revealed early hints of fiber making in the tropics